Janet Malcolm
Still Pictures by Janet Malcolm review – a great writer’s photographic memories
A posthumous collection of essays, sparked by old photos of her Czech refugee family and friends, lucidly sketches a lost world
Rachel Cooke
24, Jan, 2023 @8:00 AM
Janet Malcolm: The Last Interview; Joan Didion: The Last Interview review – crafty to the end
In these revealing late-life chats, the two doyennes of US journalism display all the acuity and intellectual toughness that made them household names
Peter Conrad
03, Jul, 2022 @10:00 AM
Those we lost in 2021: Janet Malcolm remembered by Michael W Miller
The US journalist on his aunt, whose exacting vision – from her writing to her elegant dinner parties – was an expression of love and generosity
13, Dec, 2021 @4:00 PM
Janet Malcolm obituary
Staff writer for the New Yorker who wrote about the practice of journalism, art and biography
Ian Jack
01, Jul, 2021 @4:58 PM
RIP Janet Malcolm, America’s finest nonfiction writer who detailed the failings of others alongside her own | Alex Clark
The writer pioneered a superb, layered style in a series of classic books
Alex Clark
20, Jun, 2021 @8:30 AM
Janet Malcolm, author of The Journalist and the Murderer, dies aged 86
New Yorker writer, whose scepticism about her trade brought her both praise and blame, was also famed for studies of psychoanalysis and Sylvia Plath
Sian Cain
17, Jun, 2021 @4:19 PM
In brief: Nobody’s Looking at You; Cygnet; Where Shall We Run To? – reviews
Entertainingly spiky essays, a promising fiction debut and a pungent wartime memoir
Hephzibah Anderson
14, Apr, 2019 @12:00 PM
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion by Michelle Dean – review
Dean’s group biography of female writers who dared speak their mind is a great and worthy project
Rachel Cooke
08, May, 2018 @6:00 AM
Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner review – elegant reflections on life, writing and Russell Crowe
Despite disparate themes and dated subjects, Garner’s new collection coheres as a volume, and reminds us again why she is one of the greats
James Robert Douglas
22, Mar, 2016 @2:21 AM
The best book we've read all year: Guardian writers and readers look back
It’s been a wonderful year for literature so here are the reads we’ve enjoyed the most in 2015, new or not. From poetry to psychoanalysis, fiction to biography, Guardian writers and readers look back
Gustavo Arellano, Marta Bausells, Emma Brockes, Dave Bry, Oliver Burkeman, Sian Cain, Cindy Casares, Sarah Galo, Lucia Graves, Stuart Heritage, Paul Simon, Zach Stafford, Trevor Timm, Richard Wolffe and Guardian readers. Curated by Marta Bausells
29, Dec, 2015 @2:00 PM
Does it matter if Joseph Mitchell embellished his journalism?
He is long known to have used composite characters and a new biography will reveal more embellishments – but perhaps that’s the magic of his work
Michelle Dean
06, Apr, 2015 @7:41 PM
Joe McGinniss obituary
Controversial writer and journalist known for Fatal Vision and The Selling of the President
Michael Carlson
12, Mar, 2014 @5:59 PM
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